2803 - $elf-$ustaining Pools

Intermediate / Pre-Symposium Full-Day Lecture

 

Sanibel, FL / Monday, June 28, 2010 – 7:30 am-4:30 pm – 8.0 credit hours equal to 8.0 CECs/.8 CEUs

Classroom: 7:30 am-12:00 pm

Lunch: 12:00-1:00 pm

Classroom: 1:00-4:30 pm

 

Faculty: Sue Nelson, BS, ATRIC, and Mick Nelson, BS, MS

 

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Participants will learn the Òins and outsÓ of total aquatic programming and business leadership to help enhance the community service of their facility. This will lead to more versatile facility programming and a more financially secure facility.

 

Participants should have the tools to put the following aquatic programming components into action at their own facilities:

¬     Aquatic Career Progressions

¬     Facility Development and Basic Design

¬     Operational Cost Analysis and Budgets

¬     Equipment Alternatives

¬     Hours of Operation and Staffing Schedules

¬     Job Descriptions

¬     Marketing tools:  Client Handbooks and Brochures

¬     Policy and Procedures Manual

¬     Business Leadership – VVMOST

¬     Professionalism and Ethics

¬     Programming Options – F.I.N.E. programming

¬     Client Needs/Wants – Amenities – Customer Service

¬     Value Received Pricing

 

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

1.     Determine how to use the eight different components to run an aquatic facility.

2.     Explore a new method: VRP – Valued Received Pricing for your programs.

3.     Design a staffing and management structure to benefit everyone.

Aquatic Risk Management – Objectives

1.     Examine why Aquatic Risk Management is a must for a successful aquatic business.

2.     Determine the critical decisions one has to make in the planning and building phases.

3.     Discover the training that will be needed.

 

FACULTY:  Mick Nelson, BS, MS, is the Director of USA Swimming's Facilities Development Division. Sue Nelson, BS, ATRIC, is the Aquatic Programs Specialist for USA Swimming. The Nelsons come from a club coaching background and have extensive experience in business and aquatic management. They formed their own swim club and built their own indoor facility in Danville, Illinois, while adding a retail and wholesale pool/spa and aquatic equipment business to the mix. They also offered aquatic facility design, building, and business consultation to the aquatic industry with their company, NSS Inc. In 1994, they formed WaterWay Therapy Inc., which was one of the first and only privately owned and operated Medicare-approved outpatient aquatic physical therapy centers in the country. Poolside Health & Wellness Center was created by the Nelsons in 2002 and became the home for the USA Swim Club, WaterWay Therapy, and Swim America learn-to-swim program, as well as a full-service land and water community health and wellness center. In June 2004, they moved to Colorado Springs, CO, to help form the new Facilities Division of USA Swimming. Since that time, the Facilities Department has 65 new facilities either completed or under construction, 25 more in the design phase, and over 50 in the programming feasibility stages.